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 * Topic: Ocean life **

RI.2.1 - Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. RI.2.2 - Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. RI.2.3 - Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text. RI.2.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area. RI.2.6 - Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe. RI.2.8 - Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text. RRF.2.3d - Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes. RRF.2.4c - Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary. W.2.2 - Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section. W.2.8 - Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. SL.2.1 - Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. SL.2.2 - Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. L.2.1 - Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. L.2.1d - Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., sat, hid, told). L.2.2c - Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.
 * Common Core standards: **

Students will be able to understand, recognize, apply, and analyze the following skills:
 * Suggested student objectives: **
 * Fact and opinions
 * Monitor and clarify
 * Write instructions
 * Past and future tense verbs
 * Suffixes
 * Contractions


 * Suggested additional readings: **
 * __If You Were a Contraction__ by Trisha Speed Shaskan
 * __Karate Contractions__ by Gail Herman
 * __Alfie the Apostrophe__ by Moira Rose Donohue
 * __I Think I Thought and Other Tricky Verbs__ by Marvin Terban
 * __If You Were a Verb__ by Michael Dahl
 * __Kites Sail High: a book about verbs__ by Ruth Heller
 * __To Root, to Toot, to Parachute: what is a verb?__ by Brian P. Cleary
 * __Verbs__ by Ann Heinrichs
 * __Ocean Food Web__ by Paul Fleisher
 * __Parrotfish__ by Martha E.H. Rustad
 * __Sea Lions__ by Colleen Sexton
 * __Sea Shells__ by Shari Skeie
 * __Jellyfish__ by Anne Wendorff

Journeys lesson activities Discovery Education - video about suffixes Enchanted Learning - printable exercises about suffixes Brainpopjr - video about contractions Primary Games - online game about contractions Enchanted Learning - printable verb exercises Enchanted Learning - printable contraction worksheets Discovery Education - video about present and past tense verbs Brainpopjr - video about verb tenses PebbleGo - ocean resources BookFlix - informational text about the sea Enchanted Learning - printable booklet about sea animals WatchKnowLearn - NASA video about why oceans are salty Brainpopjr - video about oceans and continents
 * Resource links: **

Student learning outcome Distinguish fact from opinion in a book. Duration: approximately 50 minutes Necessary materials: //Provided//:
 * Activities: **
 * Guided practice
 * Independent practice worksheet

//Not Provided//: Teacher will review what we learned in Lesson 1 about identifying fact and opinion statements from a passage. Teacher will give several examples of facts and several examples of opinions to remind students of the differences. For example, “Boats float in the water” is a fact. It can be proven true. “Boats are fun to ride” is an opinion because not everyone agrees and it cannot be proven true. Teacher will explain that today we will read a nonfiction text and distinguish facts from opinions. Teacher will read aloud Chapter 1 of "Penguins are Special Birds” in __Penguins__ by Lynn M. Stone. Ask: "How did I distinguish a fact from an opinion?" Students should respond that you read the text and thought about if the information was something that can be proven to be true or if it was someone's thoughts or feelings. Teacher and students will read the sentences on chart paper (see Guided Practice Worksheet in Teacher and Student Materials below) from the chapter and determine if each statement is a fact or an opinion. We will discuss how we know each sentence is a fact or an opinion. Facts can be proven true. Opinions usually contain some kind of adjective or descriptive word.
 * __Penguins__ by Lynn M. Stone
 * Chart paper
 * Markers
 * Lesson Plan
 * ===DIRECT TEACHING===
 * ===THINK CHECK===
 * ===GUIDED PRACTICE===
 * TIP:** You may choose to organize the Guided Practice as a whole class sorting activity. Before teaching the lesson write out the sentences on sentence strips. During the lesson, have students place each sentence under the correct heading - “fact” or “opinion”.
 * ReadWorks - fact/opinion practice sheet

will read (or listen as I read) Chapter 5, “Penguin Parents,” and determine if sentences from the chapter are facts or opinions. You will explain how you know these are facts or opinions (Student Independent Practice is provided below). Note: You will need to copy Chapter 5 for each student before the lesson begins so the students can use it for Independent Practice.
 * ** ASSESSMENTS **
 * ===INDEPENDENT PRACTICE===

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